Iran may face energy shortage in 2016
Iran may suffer from power shortage in the coming fiscal year
corresponding to 2016, said Alireza Ahmadi Yazdi, an official at
Iran Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Management
Company.
He expressed concern over the high consumption of power in the
country and predicted that the country will face the shortage of
3,000 megawatt of power in peak hours in the coming summer, Mehr
news agency reported.
He also called for saving energy in the country after lifting
sanctions as he predicted the consumption of electricity in the
country will increase.
Earlier on November 30 Iranian media reported that the country’s
Energy efficiency Organization (IEEO) has granted several German
companies with permissions to build a number of solar power plants
with the capacity of producing 1260 megawatt of electricity in the
country.
In February, Homayoun Haeri, the managing director of TAVANIR, also
said ten percent of Iran’s electricity needs will be met by solar
and wind power plants by 2022.
He added that Iranian solar and wind power plants will generate
12,000 MW of electricity annually.
Iranians consumed about 219 billion kilowatt hour of power over the
last Iranian fiscal year corresponding to 2014.
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